In the United States, rapper Gustav Ahr, who performed under the pseudonym Lil Peep, died at the age of 21. The artist's death was confirmed by his manager Chase Ortega. From messages from friends of the rapper, it is known that Lil Peep died as a result of an overdose several hours before he was supposed to perform at a concert in Tucson, Arizona. The rapper's colleagues mourn and warn subscribers about the dangers of drugs.
The first reports that something happened to the 21-year-old rapper, known for the tracks Benz Truck and Awful Things, appeared late at night on November 15, local time. A message appeared on the r/g59 subreddit, reporting that all is not well with Lil Peep.
On the evening of November 15, the musician was scheduled to give a concert in Tucson, Arizona. Later, the person who published the photo wrote that a coroner's car pulled up to the bus.
Criminologists and a coroner arrived at the scene. I'm so sorry...
They take the body. I don't want to look at it.
His friend Bexey came outside. He sobs and screams that all this is not really happening, that he does not want to live anymore.
Before it became clear that the rapper needed help, his friend Bexey posted an Instagram story showing Lil Peep lying unconscious on a bus seat with his head thrown back. The post was later deleted.
Fragment from the video. Bexey himself is in the picture.
He later said that he had no idea that Pip was possibly already dead.
In 2017, the young rapper, who began his career by publishing his first compositions on Soundcloud and YouTube, released his debut LP album Come Over When You're Sober, Pt.1. The musician's latest single, Avoid, was released on October 13.
In a July interview with Vice, the rapper, who often addressed topics of depression and drug use in his lyrics, spoke about the problems gnawing at him.
Do you remember your first date?
- No... I destroyed my own memory.I am a very emotional person, and I destroy myself and the people around me with this. I wish I could be less sensitive. I feel everything very strongly.
The rapper’s drug addiction has been known for a long time; he has raised this topic more than once in his work and wrote about it in his blogs on social networks, calling himself a “productive drug addict.” He urged his fans not to take drugs, but he himself, apparently, could not cope with the addiction. His manager Chase Ortega tweeted after reports of his client's death that, unfortunately, he had been waiting for this news for the past year.
Pip adheres to a special style of clothing, in which the color pink predominates, and he dyes his hair with the same color. His music cannot be clearly attributed to any genre - on the one hand, he has more than a dozen tracks with a trap sound, on the other, his main stream of compositions is similar to sad rock, inspired by Blink-182.
In 2017, Lil Peep reached major forms - in September, the musician released a full-length album “Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 1", which had some success among fans of the genre.
He generally had a fairly fast career. He uploaded his tracks, including on his YouTube channel, where videos for “Awful Things”, “Benz Truck” or “The Brightside” already collected several million views. He signed a contract with famous agent Kara Lewis, and specialized publications like Noisey and Pitchfork were quick to declare him “the future of emo music.”
Lil Peep was classified as emo hip-hop - that is, that type of this music that largely exploited the emo boom of the last decade. Lil Peep has become in many ways the face of this trend - and therefore will be remembered primarily as the artist who brought emo culture back to the masses; in his tracks, the music that was popular in 2007-2008 took on a new form in the tracks. Lil Peep set sad lyrics - mostly about depression, despair, angst and drugs - over instrumentals that sounded a lot like emo icons My Chemical Romance. And in many ways they were about himself:
“I'm very emotional. I ruin the life of myself and other people. I don't want to be like that"
Lil Peep said in an interview with Noisey.
In 2017, Lil Peep came to Russia, where he gave a concert and also shot a video for the song “Benz Truck” (“Gelik”).
The rapper's death was commented on by his Russian colleagues; For many of them, this became a reason to speak out against drugs. Thus, in particular, the currently most popular domestic representative of the genre Oksimiron (Miron Fedorov) published a tweet in two languages in which he called for avoiding drugs, and if there is an addiction, get treatment.
Performer Oxxxymiron, in light of the death of rapper Lil Peep from an overdose, called on everyone to stay away from drugs, pointing out that if “such a misfortune” has happened to a person, then you need to look for those who will help cope with addiction, for example, visit groups of anonymous drug addicts. “When I die, you will love me,” Lil Peep wrote on his Instagram page the day before his death.
Lil Peep- this is a pseudonym, but his real name is Gustav Ar. Date of birth: 1996. Born in New York City, the family is teachers with roots going back to the Swedes, Germans and Irish. At the age of 14, Gustav stayed to live with his mother, and his father abandoned them. In high school, he actively skipped school, which ultimately led to him completely abandoning his studies and school. General education knowledge (in order to close the school program) before I received it in online courses.
Later, Pip begins to get acquainted with the underground rap culture of Los Angeles, he is fascinated by this and pushes him to take the first steps: buying a microphone, connecting the equipment to a laptop and starting recording tracks of his own production in the GarageBand program, and then publishing them on the SoundCloud service.
Later, he moved directly to the city of Los Angeles in order to get closer to the music that inspires him. Lil Peep's first recordings date back to 2015, at the end of the same year he is preparing his first release called “LiL PEEP PART ONE”, which is released without any assistance in promotion and without labels. Gustav had an ambition that he could make money from his music, which eventually became true.
Peep stood out in the underground genre in the direction of the so-called soundcloud rap. This trend has emerged among musicians who distribute their creativity through the SoundCloud website and the YouTube service.
Creativity, which is attributed to this subculture, is usually recorded on the knee. Rough sound, superficial approach, slam and fights at concerts are the hallmark of soundcloud rap.
Lil Peep's music is a darkened instrumental (guitar, drums) against which LP raps about suicide, failure and drugs. His work is characterized as emo rap due to the numerous emotional background in the lyrics. Sash Lil Peep said he was inspired by emo bands as a child (Once for Halloween he even dressed up as Gerard Way, the leader of the band "My Chemical Romance").
The rapper himself admitted that he suffers from a depressive disorder (the fact that depression goes side by side with him can be judged by his songs). He also said that he did not consider himself happy and often thought about suicide.
In one of his interviews, the rapper says that he does not struggle with his depression, but if he is offered drugs, he does not refuse. For example, the drug Xanax, a drug used to treat depression, was often abused by Lil Peep.
“I wanted to kill myself and I still want to kill myself. My life is meaningless, and I want everyone to know: I don’t give a damn,” these are the main lines (one of) Peep's hit with the title - "OMFG".
The lyrical track, which takes its basis on a sample from a little-known folk band, is one of Pip’s distinctive features: complete hatred of himself and the world that surrounds him, as well as a strong desire to prove that the author is capable of achieving success.
The main goal of the rapper's work is revenge. Revenge on the father who sank him, similarly - on the girls; he believed that with his success he would let them know that he deserved better.
The rise of Lil Peep's popularity was built entirely from his home efforts, where there were no labels behind it, but only the natural audience of the SoundCloud service, which, having noticed the rapper, began to closely observe his evolution in creativity.
Lil Peep died in the USA. Information about the death of the rap musician was confirmed by his manager Mikey Cortez. The rapper died at the age of 21. The cause of death could have been a drug overdose. On this day, Peep was supposed to have a concert in Tucson, but the performance was cancelled.
A friend of the rapper with the pseudonym bexeyswan showed the dead Lil Peep live on Instagram. At the time of the broadcast, his friend Beccy, as can be concluded from his voice and eyes, was also under the influence of narcotic substances. He published a video where, after a speech insert, he shows Lil Peep unconscious. Also, in the footage you can see a girl smiling happily. Probably, teenagers currently do not understand the essence of what is happening
It was a coincidence that a day before his death, the rapper published a photo from a performance, which was signed: “You will love me when I die.” His admirers and admirers then began to confess their love to him.
Fans of deceased rapper Lil Peep have found out more precise details of his death and found the one who allegedly gave the musician drugs. It was his fan who was one of the first to write in a chat about the rapper’s death. The girl was declared an online vendetta, but she also had supporters who believe that only the one who chooses the size of his dose is to blame for an overdose.
Gustav Ahr, known as Lil Peep, died of an opiate overdose while partying on his tour bus, according to multiple reports. The performer “warmed up” before his concert in Arizona with a party with drugs and at a certain moment, closing his eyes, leaned back in his chair, after which he never regained consciousness. At first, the guests believed that the musician had fallen asleep, but soon they suspected something was wrong and called an ambulance.
While colleagues in the industry, fans are conducting their own investigations, trying to find out what exactly Lil Peep died from. And they didn’t have to look long for an answer: it turns out that the rapper’s death was practically broadcast live on Snapchat - party guests wrote messages to fans’ chat from the bus. One of them, and perhaps the first message about the rapper’s death, was the message from a fan named Mariah who was at the party. At 19:20 local time, she happily wrote that the rapper passed out because of the pills she gave him. And even then other fans suspected something was wrong.
- He (Lil Peep) passed out. My brother called me and I tried to get him to say hi to my brother, but he didn't want to wake up, so I handed the phone to the Mackned rapper.Expand
Mariah did not pay attention to the remark and for several hours continued to enjoy the party and communication with the musicians, reporting about it in the fan chat. And there she admitted that she brought drugs to the party.
20:08 - Bexey was here, I saw him. But he disappeared before I could take a photo. I also haven’t seen Coldy at all.Expand
The reports ended immediately after the turmoil surrounding Lil Peep began - the fan silently left the chat. Fans did not yet know about the musician’s death and were surprised by her sudden departure, but, as a girl named Stephanie, who posted screenshots of the chat on Twitter, suggested, the reason was Mariah’s connection with the musician’s death.
13:26 - I'll let you know when I get there.
15:22 - We're ten minutes away, we have joints, buns, tablas and Xanax,sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss].
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As soon as fans learned about the rapper's death, they began their own investigation "hot on the heels." There were girls I knew in the chat who suggested that she shouldn’t be trusted to resolve such issues.
This is my ex, this isn't the first time she's popped a bad Xanax. One day she almost killed me and herself because of this. Her name is Mariah Bones. Please don't tell anyone my name. I want to report this to the police because I know it's shady. They had already encountered her several times. If you have anyone with group chats like this or any other info about her, I could use it. Share this on other social networks.Expand
As fans write, the girl gave Lil Peep “Xanax” (xanax, xans, “Zanex”), which was diluted with fentanyl, an opioid analgesic. Some resort to similar enhancers of the action of Xanax, but many of those who are “in the know” know that this combination can be deadly.
And in the comments to Stephanie's tweet, discussions broke out. Many began to blame the girl and wish her the worst.